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Reports
Measuring the Effects of Self-Awareness: Construction of the Self-Awareness Outcomes Questionnaire
Measuring the Effects of Self-Awareness: Construction of the Self-Awareness Outcomes Questionnaire
Measuring the Effects of Self-Awareness: Construction of the Self-Awareness Outcomes Questionnaire

This two-part, mixed-methods study looks at understanding dispositional self-awareness through developing a questionnaire to measure its outcomes.
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Every Historian Counts
Every Historian Counts
Every Historian Counts

This tool allows users to see broad trends in history PhD employment and to assess how such factors as gender, area of study, and degree-granting institution influence career outcomes.
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History at Home: Exploring African American Heritage, Stories, and Culture Through Online Museum Collection
History at Home: Exploring African American Heritage, Stories, and Culture Through Online Museum Collection
History at Home: Exploring African American Heritage, Stories, and Culture Through Online Museum Collection

This blog post provides the general public with access to virtual museum collections of African American history, heritage, and culture.
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Entrepreneurial Soft Skills for the Future: a Scoping Study
Entrepreneurial Soft Skills for the Future: a Scoping Study
Entrepreneurial Soft Skills for the Future: a Scoping Study

This report contributes to the broader debate around the role that soft skills can play in entrepreneurial success.
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The Arc - Inclusive Volunteering
The Arc - Inclusive Volunteering
The Arc - Inclusive Volunteering

This webpage explains how community organizations can include individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) in volunteering. The page also includes volunteering resources and tips.
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Substance Misuse Prevention for Young Adults
Substance Misuse Prevention for Young Adults
Substance Misuse Prevention for Young Adults

This guide supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to prevent substance misuse among young adults. It describes relevant research findings, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources.
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The Impact of Stress on Students in Secondary School and Higher Education
The Impact of Stress on Students in Secondary School and Higher Education
The Impact of Stress on Students in Secondary School and Higher Education

This article presents the most recent research concerning the impact of academic-related stress, including discussion of the impact on students’ learning capacity and academic performance, mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, sleep disturbances and substance use.
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Teaching Teenagers to Develop Their Emotional Intelligence
Teaching Teenagers to Develop Their Emotional Intelligence
Teaching Teenagers to Develop Their Emotional Intelligence

This article discusses the importance of teaching teenagers social and emotional learning in improving career outcomes.
Reports
To Secure Knowledge-Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good
To Secure Knowledge-Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good
To Secure Knowledge-Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good

This report highlights the need for government, academia, donor organizations, and the private sector to collaborate on social science research through funding, data, ethics, research quality, and research training.
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U.S. Businesses Need More Multilingual Employees
U.S. Businesses Need More Multilingual Employees
U.S. Businesses Need More Multilingual Employees

This report provides additional information supporting the claim that learning a new language opens career paths and increases employment opportunities for students.
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11 Future Lessons We Can Learn From the History of Business
11 Future Lessons We Can Learn From the History of Business
11 Future Lessons We Can Learn From the History of Business

This article details 11 lessons businesses can learn from history to ensure a better present and improved future business outcomes.
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How to Use Colleges & Universities to Help Your Business
How to Use Colleges & Universities to Help Your Business
How to Use Colleges & Universities to Help Your Business

This article gives small businesses recommendations for creating partnerships with colleges and universities.
Reports
Well-Being in the Workplace: Why it Matters for Organizational Performance and How to Improve It
Well-Being in the Workplace: Why it Matters for Organizational Performance and How to Improve It
Well-Being in the Workplace: Why it Matters for Organizational Performance and How to Improve It

This report presents the key findings from a three-year international study that investigated workplace well-being, the activities most effective for enhancing well-being, and the benefits for organizations fostering well-being for their employees.
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What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)
What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)
What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It)

This article highlights three findings from research on the definition of self-awareness and how to improve it.
Reports
Bridging the Soft Skills Gap
Bridging the Soft Skills Gap
Bridging the Soft Skills Gap

This report makes a case for partnerships between business and education sectors and outlines strategies already being used successfully across the country as well as providing recommendations for businesses looking to help students develop soft skills for the workplace.
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The Importance of Teaching History In Business Schools
The Importance of Teaching History In Business Schools
The Importance of Teaching History In Business Schools

This article explains why business schools should teach history to better prepare their graduates for successful business careers.
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How to Manage Self Monitoring Employees
How to Manage Self Monitoring Employees
How to Manage Self Monitoring Employees

This article provides recommendations to managers on how to manage self-monitoring employees without discouraging their initiative.
Best Practices
8 Ways Managers Can Support Employees’ Mental Health
8 Ways Managers Can Support Employees’ Mental Health
8 Ways Managers Can Support Employees’ Mental Health

This article lists ways business managers and leaders can support employees as they face new stressors, safety concerns, and economic upheaval due to COVID-19. The authors offer eight concrete actions managers and leaders can take today.
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How Organizations Can Help Employees Self-Manage
How Organizations Can Help Employees Self-Manage
How Organizations Can Help Employees Self-Manage

This article lists strategies for businesses in creating a workplace that enables employees to self-manage. To remain competitive, an organization must learn how to optimize people’s performance.
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How to Teach Ethical Decision Making Skills to Employees
How to Teach Ethical Decision Making Skills to Employees
How to Teach Ethical Decision Making Skills to Employees

Recommendations for company leaders on how to teach employees to make ethical decisions.
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Working with People Who Aren’t Self-Aware
Working with People Who Aren’t Self-Aware
Working with People Who Aren’t Self-Aware

This article lists recommendations for how to deal with workplace colleagues lacking self-awareness. Un-self-aware colleagues aren’t just frustrating; they can cut a team’s chances of success in half and lead to increased stress, decreased motivation, and higher turnover. So how do we deal with these situations?
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The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons
The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons
The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons

It has never been easier to publish online or consume digital content. This comes with many advantages and can make teaching and learning so much more targeted and impactful. Living in a digital world also brings up many questions — one issue that is very important to understand is copyright.
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Peardeck-Turn Google Slides into Interactive Lessons
Peardeck-Turn Google Slides into Interactive Lessons
Peardeck-Turn Google Slides into Interactive Lessons

Imagine if you could engage every student in your class, every day. What if you could instantly see who’s confused and who’s ready for more? That’s the power of Pear Deck. And now, with the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, you can add the magic of formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides.
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The ABLE Guide (Accessing Blended Learning Education)
The ABLE Guide (Accessing Blended Learning Education)
The ABLE Guide (Accessing Blended Learning Education)

The ABLE Guide adapts content from the Distance Learning Playbook by Fisher, Frye and Hattie (Corwin Press) and focuses on four principles of learning and connects and aligns numerous digital tools to help these principles come to life within different learning environments. The four principles of learning are Relationships, Engagement, Monitor & Feedback and Demonstrating Mastery. In each of the four sections of the ABLE Guide we provide some introductory information, a vignette, some additional insights/information and then a link to a digital toolbox which aligns various digital tools to support implementation of the principle. The ABLE Guide also aligns the four principles to important standards in education. The Guide draws connections between the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) standards, the CASEL (the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning) competencies and the NSQ (National Standards for Quality Online Learning) standards. Links to each of these standards are found in the section for each principle.